GetAuthenticationMode

Description

Returns the current AuthenticationMode of the User.

Note: A return value of either 0 or 2 indicates CQ_AUTHENTICATION and should be handled as such in any scripts using the DevOps Plan Schema API.

No special privilege is required to call this method.

Syntax

Perl


user->GetAuthenticationMode();

Identifier: Description
user: A User object.
Return value: Returns a Long containing the AuthenticationMode of the user, else an exception is thrown.

Example

Perl

sub checkAuthentication_On_User($)
# Check the user's authentication mode
{
    my $user = shift;
    $authentication = $user->GetAuthenticationMode();
    if ($authentication == $CQPerlExt::CQ_LDAP_AUTHENTICATION) {
        return "LDAP Authenticated";
    }
    if ($authentication == $CQPerlExt::CQ_CQ_AUTHENTICATION) {
        return "CQ Authenticated";
    }
        return "UNKNOWN";
	}